It's a very infectious combination - there is a wonderful resonance frequency between them, whether it is the police chief and the undercover agent, or the butler and the young master, there is always a collision of boundless energy. Although the show has ended, the "Liu Boer Universe" co-created by Xin Zai and Zhang Zhehua and the various charms brought by the characters are still spreading infinitely; We also see that two actors who are sincere and romantic in their hearts look the most authentic.
The first appearance of Xinzai and Zhang Zhehua was on the hot search.
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The program "Young Master and I" was broadcast in the second phase of "Annual Comedy Competition 2", with an outrageous and unreasonable funny temperament, it got a super high score of 11,700 on the spot, and quickly exploded on social media, grabbed 200 million views, and made 4 hot searches in one go.
It's a very contagious combination. Xin Zai and Zhang Zhehua have not known each other for a long time, but there is a resonance frequency, very strange, the role in their hands, whether it is the police chief and undercover, or the butler and the young master, can always collide with a misplaced wonder, as well as just the right embarrassment, full of tacit understanding. Young people familiar with Mary Sue's online literature and idol dramas were laughed at by the snipe, while picking their toes in Long Aotian's "shame" lines, and laughing for "Liu Bo's bangs scars" until their abs cramped, and they were extremely happy.
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"There was a time difference between recording and broadcasting, and when "Young Master and I" was on the hot search, we were in the third stage, busy creating new programs. My friend told me that you are popular on the hot search, I usually don't often play Weibo, I don't know how powerful the hot search is, and I want him to popularize science with me, I just got a little. Xin Zai said that what made him really feel that he was out of the circle was to do nucleic acid with Zhang Zhehua one day, the two people were lining up, and a loud dantian pronounced "Liu Boer" came from behind, he turned around and saw a boy smiling at the two people, running to ask if he could take a photo. "I was very embarrassed, and a little happy, but fortunately there were not too many people on the street."
The competition has just ended, the shock of becoming popular and famous has not yet arrived, Zhang Zhehua and Xinzai in front of them, they have gained friendship and grown together. At the same time, they still maintain their true appearance: romantic, little people with actor dreams, and sincere little actors in their hearts.
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After the end of "Erxi", Zhang Zhehua wrote a long article, bidding farewell to many "dragon aotian" on the stage. In the first stage of "Young Master and I", Zhang Zhehua's "Long Aotian" blends shame, absurdity and laughter, he wants to proudly introduce himself as 184 tall, panda blood, and shout "I am Long Aotian, swear to protect Liu Bo".
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Long Aotian gathers the various "shame" lines of the overbearing president, but Zhang Zhehua's performance does not make people feel greasy, he completes this overlord role in a very restrained way, just right, in a comedy situation, and then bursts out a rare charm.
"Use sincerity, because sincerity itself is attractive." Zhang Zhehua said that Long Aotian is not an abstract concept for him, but a concrete person. He used the actor's way of thinking to approach Long Aotian, broke the character's past and present lives, straightened it out, and thought thoroughly. "I don't believe Long Aotian is pretending to be cool. If a person wants to pretend, there will always be flaws, and it is impossible to have that sense of belief rushing in the blood. The Long Aotian I imagined should have a wealthy family when he was a child, he had attended private school, and his parents may be people with exquisite lives, so they can understand so many details of life. It was also natural for him to blurt out 'swear to protect Liu Boer', because Long Aotian and the young master had experienced an accident on the train, and he owed the young master. ”
After slowly deepening, Zhang Zhehua found the fulcrum of the "true" on Long Aotian's body. This subconscious search may be related to Zhang Zhehua's professional acting training and leaving a very solid foundation.
"Comedy and drama are no different in this regard." The joke is nine points true, the more true, the funnier. "Comedy also needs to work on the characters, and when you are sincere, the audience can feel the charm of sincerity."
Zhang Zhehua was much more restrained than expected. In interviews, he apologized more than once for "chatting stuck", and you can feel his rustiness in revealing himself and the sincerity behind it. Partner Xin Zai used the words "steady inner show" to describe Zhang Zhehua. This trait is rare among comedians. They are usually out, lively, and non-talking.
He and Xin Zai first met in June this year, and Mi Wei gathered actors who had not yet found a partner to try each other's matching opportunities. Xin Zai remembered that Zhang Zhehua's first reaction after reading the book "Young Master and Me" was silence, "He is very stable, even if a book is funny, he will not easily judge, go through his brain before opening his mouth, and give an opinion." Zhehua gave me a few memes after reading it, including the merciless rain paragraph, which is very appropriate. There are also a lot of terriers in the second stage "The Police and Me", which are also provided by Zhehua. I thought it was good to say everything he said, and I used it all. ”
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Zhang Zhehua explained that he is just a little social fear, not good at chatting with strangers, and is also afraid of making mistakes on stage. After joining "Erxi" in February, Zhang Zhehua has not found a suitable partner. Before Xin Zai, he tried to combine with others, and also rehearsed a few books, and when he went on stage at the stage of the performance, he found that the performance effect was "cool", and the audience could not laugh when listening to their words, and there was no positive feedback. Zhang Zhehua did not have enough experience to face setbacks on the spot, and was "cold" for three or four games in a row, and the combination was gone. "You say that I am stable or timid, I have always had a requirement for myself in performance, that is, I hope to see my current work after many years, don't regret it."
He asked himself if he would quit the show if the June match was unsuccessful. The appearance of Xin Zai and "Long Aotian" made Zhang Zhehua put aside his anxiety and apprehension for several months and regain his sense of faith in the stage. "The first time we both stood on stage together, it was the most rewarding time of that stage. During the performance, the audience laughed heartily, which gave me confidence. ”
In this season of the comedy competition, Zhang Zhehua's original expectation was to enter the recording session from the audition. Step by step, he and Xin Zai walked through all the stages and finished second in the finals. He was already satisfied with this answer.
Of course, there are regrets. The time for the finals was tight, and Xin Zai and him were in trouble with creation. After getting the proposition, they have been thinking about how to show the "Long Aotian" and "Liu Boer" in the entire competition stage on stage, and string them all together in different situations in one way. The original plan was the space-time machine invented by the doctor, when the doctor was doing experiments for the new machine, he caught Long Aotian from Liu Mansion into the laboratory, at that time Long Aotian was fighting with Wang Shichang's 200 people, I don't know how to solve it, Long Aotian and the doctor came up with a way to defeat them in the laboratory, and Long Aotian crossed back again; The second time the Doctor turned on the machine, he shook the vampire Dracula Ausky in the Iron Ridge Closet to the laboratory, and Dracula and the Doctor worked together to get the Van Helsing who was chased; The third time, it was Wang Shichang who repented of the four-percent contract, and Long Aotian broke into Wang Shichang's mansion, went through the hurdles to find Wang Shichang, and kept the young master's contract.
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These plans, one by one, were written on the whiteboard of the creation room, and they were erased one by one. Time passed, the general direction of the book could not be fixed, Zhang Zhehua was very anxious, but he did not dare to show this urgency in front of Xin Zai, "The head is very big, the heart is like an ant crawling, I even want to write it myself, but I can't write it." The final work "The Police and My Serpent" was completed at the end, and the whole group stayed up for several nights to rush to work. The big rehearsal on the night before the recording was rehearsed until the morning, when Zhang Zhehua left the studio, his feet stepped on the ground like stepping on cotton, "I have been thinking about words, I am afraid that I will not pay attention to the words, I will make mistakes on stage, I especially don't like things not doing well."
He and Xin Zai still have a chance to make up for these regrets. After the competition, they began to plan offline performances, and one day, Long Aotian and Liu Boer Universe will continue at some time and place.
In the past 9 months, spending 24 hours with comedians, Zhang Zhehua often thinks, what is comedy? "I believe that comedy is the spice of life, the medicine, the sugar. Everyone needs a little comedy in their lives, and at some point, a certain corner can warm you. ”
On the morning after recording the final of the "Annual Comedy Competition", Xin Zai returned home, there was no time to eat, too late to look at his mobile phone, and fell asleep with a pillow. The eyes opened again, it was already the evening of the next day, he slept for a full 18 hours, he hurriedly took a few bites of food, his eyelids pulled down again, the person was crooked, and fell asleep again, "There is only one thought in my mind, tomorrow morning I don't have to get up and think about it, so I slept like this for several days." The emotions were pure white during that time, empty and dazed, reminding Xin Zai of himself when the bathhouse closed a few years ago, both with a sadness that was over and a relief from boring daily life.
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The beginning of the story is in that northeast bathhouse.
The bathhouse is opened in the neighborhood, facing the public, the price is particularly cheap, and everything is in order. Xinzai has been working at the bar for 6 years, issuing tickets, handing keys, collecting keys, it seems that bathers come and go, listen to their nagging, life in a small town, there is no difference between today and tomorrow, and there is no difference between a year ago and a year later. One day, Xin Zai swiped the performance uploaded by the open Mai actor on his mobile phone, 5 minutes and 10 minutes, which felt quite interesting. "I will think about what it would be like if I stood on the stage by myself", the more he thought about it, the more interesting it became, he took notes of the company logo on the back wall of the actor, went online to check, and found that there was a club called Galixian just in Shenyang, not far from Anshan. Xin Zai tried to send a text message to the backstage customer service of the windy day, and not long after, the call came back: "Do you want to come and see, or come to talk?" In other words, we have an open game tomorrow night, let's try it directly at the club. ”
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It was a sunny afternoon, Xin Zai hung up the phone, spent 5 minutes writing a love joke, and had time to buy a train ticket to Shenyang that night. Previously, he had never performed on stage, let alone open Mai, but the response of the first open Mai was quite good, and Xin Zai gained confidence, and went to perform the second one two days later. Open mic is a particularly direct thing, you have funny jokes, you can instantly prove yourself and get the most direct recognition from the audience. "I looked at the audience and thought I might have a bit of a talent for humor? Why don't you just give it a try. Back in Anshan, Xin Zai closed the bathhouse day after day, packed a simple bag and went to Shenyang, where he was 31 years old, and later invited by the stand-up comedy from Shenyang to Beijing, and now participates in the "Annual Comedy Competition".
From the bathhouse owner to the writer and actor of the comedy competition, everything is not in Xinzai's plan, but he feels that this is the best arrangement. If you do not encounter open Mai, you may continue to work in the bathhouse, bill and hand over keys every day, may not do particularly well, will not be particularly bad, so continue to be a normal and stable social person. "The comedy gave me a different experience, a bit bumpy along the way, but happy."
Xin Zai said that he is a person who is driven by desire. He doesn't have great ideals, and he doesn't set goals for himself, such as completing a book every month. He wrote out of pure desire, "I wanted to play a role first, and then I wrote about him."
This desire came from when Xinzi was in junior high school or younger, when the teacher spoke on the stage, and he imitated other classmates who liked to pick up stubble to amuse everyone. Winning applause and laughter is a very enjoyable thing, which makes Xin Zai have an indescribable sense of satisfaction. He found himself good at imitating and spitting on people, often capturing the essence of people with a sentence or two, and later he learned to amplify this trait for comedy.
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Xinzai's creative habit is to first let a favorite character be generated in his own mind, run casually like a wild horse out of control, and then design to use Games, environments, and events to highlight the character, tame the character, and run according to his own route. In the creation of the comedy competition, "The Police and Me" came from Xin Zai's idea of playing a punk, and "Dracula and I" is his pale vampire dream. "Zhehua and I both love Dracula and Me, and this book makes me feel the urge to act. Because vampires are a completely new proposition in the Northeast, there has never been any film or drama, and we have a lot of creative space and possibilities to imagine this plot. Another point is that we are all Anshan people, let's stage Northeasterners on stage, it's like life, we are very relaxed. However, when I expressed that I especially wanted to play a vampire, everyone objected, they said Zhehua is here, you need more explanation costs to play a vampire, and I ended up playing the second brother. ”
Before this year, being able to be on the "Annual Comedy Competition" was the goal of Xinzai's dream. When there was only one concept poster in the first season of the comedy competition, Xin Zai signed up, but was eliminated by audition to become a screenwriter, and has been learning from the creation of workshop and other actors. In the second season, Xinzai finally completed his goal with the book "Young Master and Me". What to do next, he himself is a little confused. A colleague came to ask him, do other similar variety shows still participate?
What's next? This is a difficult thing to understand, but it has been spinning in Xinzai's mind recently, "I still have freshness and longing for the stage, this feeling has not disappeared, knowing this, it is enough for me."
Q&A
ELLE: If you could exchange, what abilities would you like in the other person?
Xinzai: Appearance. Height, skin, hair volume, give me a whole set.
Zhang Zhehua: Big heart. The attitude of not rushing at any time. The book is all written by him, I don't know what the creative process should be, I only see that every time Xinzai can't write, he says to put it away, and then lie next to him and play with his mobile phone.
ELLE: Tell me about the shortcomings of the other person?
Zhang Zhehua: ace pigeon. The book promised to be written often cannot be handed over. Every time I pat my chest and promise, I have a warm blood, push the door open, blow the wind, and the blood is cold.
Xinzai: Zhang Zhehua... He just indulged me too much, he should spur me on when I couldn't write a book, but he couldn't do it, he only encouraged.
(Zhang Zhehua: I quack bad things about you, and you end up giving me the whole thing.) Can it be done all over again? I would like to ask for a rehash of that question. ）
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ELLE: What touched you the most during the match?
Xin Zai: "Young Master and I" was officially performed, and there was a little mistake on the stage. When the big screen fell, I was in a particularly bad mood, and that small moment was captured by Zhehua, who immediately gave me an encouragement. Although it's just a sentence, for me, it's too important.
Zhang Zhehua: A lot. During the initial rehearsal, Xinzai gave me a lot of advice, and also gave me psychological construction, so that I could have confidence on stage.
ELLE: The biggest difference between two people?
Xinzai: Zhehua's experience is not as rich as mine. He never opened a bathhouse.
Zhang Zhehua: After I graduated, I have been working as an actor, which is quite regrettable. I also thought about starting a side business, such as food delivery, Kaididi. (Xinzai: It's good to open Didi) can meet all kinds of people and chat with them. But sitting for a long time is not good for the waist, and it is difficult to find a toilet, and it is not good for the kidney. The most important point is that I don't have a car.
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